https://jslhr.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=1768149Spontaneous Recovery from StutteringTo investigate the puzzle of the nonpersistence of stuttering in many cases in which it begins, structured interview- and sentence-completion data were gathered on all incoming University of California, Berkeley, students during September 1964. Thirty-two spontaneously recovered stutterers were compared with 32 active stutterers and the normal controls, and a ...1966-03-01T00:00:00Research ArticleJoseph G. Sheehan

To investigate the puzzle of the nonpersistence of stuttering in many cases in which it begins, structured interview- and sentence-completion data were gathered on all incoming University of California, Berkeley, students during September 1964. Thirty-two spontaneously recovered stutterers were compared with 32 active stutterers and the normal controls, and a computer bivariate association analysis showed: (1) four out of five recover from stuttering spontaneously; (2) fewer of those who had received public school speech therapy recovered from stuttering; (3) fewer of those who had ever been severe recovered spontaneously; (4) no familial incidence pattern with either group of stutterers as compared to controls; (5) no differences in reported handedness in stutterers or their families; (6) improvement attributed to self-acceptance and role acceptance; (7) there appear to be many different paths to recovery.

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